netdev - Re: [Patch net-next v2 5/8] sunrpc: use generic union inet

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Date:	Mon, 05 Aug 2013 11:14:05 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v2 5/8] sunrpc: use generic union inet_addr

On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 09:36 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Fri,  2 Aug 2013 15:14:31 +0800
> Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
> > 
> > sunrpc defines some helper functions for sockaddr, actually they
> > can re-use the generic functions for union inet_addr too.
> 
> Only some of these patches in this series have made it to lists to
> which I'm subscribed, so I may be missing some context here...
> 
> I'm not sure I really understand the value of "union inet_addr". Why
> not just use the conventional method of passing around "struct sockaddr"
> pointers, and then casting them to struct sockaddr_in/sockaddr_in6
> depending on what the sa_family is set to?

Yes.

> 
> With that you wouldn't need to leave the (now pointless) rpc_* wrappers
> in place and could just call your new helpers directly.
> 

J. Bruce asked the same question, see:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=137475685903460&w=2

Thanks.

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